FreeTDS Development Group

["Thompson, Bill D (London)" <bill_d_thompson AT ml.com>]

Hi,

I added the FREETDS environment variable, as I thought in future this was
better, simpler and more "Sybase-compatible" than the FREETDSCONF
environment variable.
I didn't want to remove the latter for backwards compatibility, so for the
time being, both are supported.

Bill

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lowden, James K [SMTP:LowdenJK AT bernstein.com]
> Sent: 03 November 2003 16:35
> To:   'FreeTDS Development Group'
> Subject:      RE: [freetds] locale.conf
> 
> > From: ZIGLIO Frediano [mailto:Frediano.Ziglio AT vodafone.com]
> > Sent: November 3, 2003 6:22 AM
> > 
> > > I want to delete the UG references to locale.conf.  It's 
> > > pretty useless now, except that it's where the time 
> > > formatting string is set.  Anyone up for moving that to 
> > > freetds.conf, so we can rm locale.conf?
> > 
> > IMHO we should discourage locale.conf use (also we should use
> > nl_langinfo) 
> 
> Agreed.  But we need a way to control datetime formats, and locale.conf is
> the only place (right?) where we look for it.  
> 
> > but not remove from UG.
> 
> It doesn't do anything else, afaik.  
> 
> > Bill added a new FREETDS environment to select directory where FreeTDS
> > is installed (so to load configuration). I don't like all that
> > environment but should be documented in UG.
> 
> Noted.   
> 
> > Also CS_SERVERNAME was added not at end of enum so FreeTDS 0.62 is not
> > binary compatible with FreeTDS 0.61.
> 
> So we should bump the .so for ct-lib, yes?  
> 
> --jkl
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